The former New York Stock Exchange board member attacked the attorney general yesterday, while filing a motion asking a judge to toss Spitzer’s case against him.

The filing contends Langone did not mislead the NYSE board about the compensation package. Spitzer has sued Langone for his role in former Big Board chief Dick Grasso’s outlandish pay.

Langone’s lawyers argued that Langone, who headed the Big Board’s compensation committee, did not personally profit from Grasso’s deal, so Spitzer should not be able to get restitution.

“Apparently, Mr. Spitzer thought that bullying tactics would hide the fact that his case is only an inch deep and is riddled with favoritism,” said Langone spokesman Jim McCarthy. “Taxpayers are the ones being hurt here since they are paying for Mr. Spitzer’s legal misadventure and any money would be returned to the millionaires of the New York Stock Exchange.”

Responded Spitzer spokesman Darren Dopp: “Mr. Langone had a legal duty to advise the board of the entirety of Mr. Grasso’s pay package and is liable for his breach of that duty, regardless of whether or not he was personally enriched.”

Langone’s move, the latest in the mudslinging surrounding the case, comes on the heels of a $50 million slander and breach of contract suit Grasso filed against the exchange and its new chairman John Reed.

Spitzer, who is suing Grasso to recover $100 million of the approximately $240 million pay package he has been awarded, alleged that the board was misled when it approved the pay and that the massive payday violated New York not-for-profit law.

The attorney general also sued Langone for breach of fiduciary duty, alleging he withheld information about an $18 million component of Grasso’s pay.

Langone, a close friend of Grasso’s and staunch defender of his pay package, has vociferously denied that the board was misled or that any component of pay was withheld.